The launch of Windows 10 with its the tile-based Modern UI design brings a lot of new opportunities for both designers and developers to build new apps. To design an effective user interface, graphic designers will create visual Graphic User Interface (GUI) prototypes, that focus on maximizing the user experience — searching for the most functional layout that attends to core user needs, while retaining an appropriate aesthetic. It is important to know how the user will interact with the UI, and how functionality and appearance will change, depending on the features being used at any one time. The Modern UI design style has its own unique principles and typography that can be managed using ConceptDraw PRO. The ability to design Windows 10 User Interface is delivered by the Windows 10 User Interface solution for Conceptdraw PRO. Read more

It’s very simple and quick to create the UML Diagrams using the Rapid UML Solution for ConceptDraw PRO. This sample was created in 10 minutes.
This sample describes the credit card processing system. It’s a UML Class Diagram with generalization sets. This sample can be used by the banks, business and financial companies, exchanges. Read more

This business intelligence dashboard sample shows the quarter sales revenue for top 10 products by categories using donut charts.
"A doughnut chart (also spelled donut) is a variant of the pie chart, with a blank center allowing for additional information about the data as a whole to be included." [Pie chart. Wikipedia]
The BI dashboard example "Quarter Sales Revenue for Top 10 Products by Categories" was created using ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Business Intelligence Dashboards solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. Read more

This business intelligence dashboard sample shows the year-to-date top 10 products sales by regions using horizontal bar charts.
"Dashboards often provide at-a-glance views of KPIs (key performance indicators) relevant to a particular objective or business process (e.g. sales, marketing, human resources, or production). In real-world terms, "dashboard" is another name for "progress report" or "report."" [Dashboard (business). Wikipedia]
The BI dashboard example "Year-to-date Top 10 Products Sales by Regions" was created using ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Business Intelligence Dashboards solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. Read more

This business intelligence dashboard sample shows the top 10 products sales by stores in September, 2016 using vertical bar charts.
"Bar graphs/charts provide a visual presentation of categorical data. Categorical data is a grouping of data into discrete groups, such as months of the year, age group, shoe sizes, and animals. These categories are usually qualitative. In a column bar chart, the categories appear along the horizontal axis; the height of the bar corresponds to the value of each category." [Bar chart. Wikipedia]
The BI dashboard example "Top 10 Products Sales by Stores, September 2016" was created using ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Business Intelligence Dashboards solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. Read more

Сonstruction of a hotel complex or a small hotel requires a separate approach to the layout of the building and its premises. It is important to consider not only the internal layout of rooms, corridors, lobby, and even service and utility rooms. Therefore, the hotel project is developed with focusing on the needs of future guests and with obligatory accounting the convenience of maintenance by personnel.
The Basic Floor Plans solution and Floor Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park include a lot of Hotel floor plan samples, examples, templates and vector stencils libraries with enormous quantity of ready-to-use symbols of interior design elements, as well as furniture and equipment for designing the floor plans for the hotels of different size and style, for economy and limited service hotels, bed and breakfast hotels, mini hotels, for drawing the space layout plans for medium-sized hotels and large hotel complexes, and many other plans, designs and layouts using the tools of ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software. Read more

Cross-Functional Flowchart is a type of chart which shows the series of process steps connected by the arrows to depict their order and applies the swim lanes to provide an extra dimension with means of assigning each process step to certain category. Often the category or the functional unit is a stakeholder (department, person, role), resource, project, phase, or any other attribute. Cross-Functional Flowcharts visually illustrate relationships between the business processes and the functional units responsible for this processes.
ConceptDraw PRO is a powerful diagramming and vector drawing software for professional design Cross-Functional Flowcharts using the common notation of shapes and swim lanes. Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution included to the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park provides numerous well-designed vector objects and connector tools for quick, easy and effective organizing information, representing process flows and relationships, and drawing Cross-Functional Flowcharts for business, science, education, technology, etc. Read more

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols.
The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful - you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order.
There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw PRO. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities. Read more